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Title: Westminster man told to stop running tax scheme
Source: Baltimore Sun
URL Source: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/lo ... story?coll=bal-local-headlines
Published: Dec 4, 2006
Author: AP
Post Date: 2006-12-04 18:32:27 by Starwind
Ping List: *unUsual Suspects*     Subscribe to *unUsual Suspects*
Keywords: Kotmair, Save-A-Patriot Fellowship
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Comments: 200

A Westminster man has been barred by a federal judge from running a scheme in which he promised to help members avoid paying federal taxes, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.

The "Save-A-Patriot Fellowship" run by John Baptist Kotmair Jr. falsely advised that clients didn't have to pay taxes and could legally withdraw from the Social Security system, U.S. District Judge William Nickerson said in his ruling. Despite legal action by the U.S. Justice Department, Kotmair's organization continued to file frivolous protest letters with the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of more than 800 clients and showed "no inclination ... to cease their activities," Nickerson noted.

Nickerson's order, issued last week, permanently bars Kotmair and his organization from representing or assisting anyone in corresponding with the IRS, or preparing court filings relating to income taxes. Kotmair and his organization must also notify all individuals involved in the scheme of the injunction and provide the Justice Department with the names of the customers, their e-mail addresses and telephone and Social Security numbers.

The injunction also must be posted prominently on the organization's Web sites for a year, and fraudulent promotional materials must be removed from the sites.


Poster Comment:

Kotmair's defense and taxation arguments were inane to put it charitably. His website (where he's to post the injunction) is at http://save-a-patriot.org/

Stupid tax-protestors and their schemes just muddy the water for legitimate tax-protest arguments. Kotmair, Schiff, Schultz, Rose all will become boilerplate examples of tax schemes which will be used unfairly to broad-brush and defeat otherwise legitimate arguments, rasing the cost and complexity to properly take on the IRS.

I cite Joe Banister as an example of how to do it right, intelligently, and the above tax schemes just make it difficult if not impossible for people like Banister to prevail honestly on the merits. Subscribe to *unUsual Suspects*

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#2. To: Starwind (#0) (Edited)

Stupid tax-protestors and their schemes

Many of these "stupid tax protestors" are correct in their assertions. They have researched extensively and know the law. That matters not to the government. They can't let this information become known, let them win, and, of course, are going to make examples of them to scare anyone who may be considering not filing. In the courtroom, the judge's totally ignore the law and, worse, insure that the jury never knows it either. Their job is to protect the corrupt system. See Aaron Russo's Freedom To Fascism to see it in practice. Joe Banister and several other former IRS Agents and many in the Tax Honesty Movement are featured in the film.

christine  posted on  2006-12-04   18:53:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: christine (#2)

Many of these "stupid tax protestors" are correct in their assertions. They have researched extensively and know the law.

The ones I've listed do not. They haven't a clue. They think they do, but they seemingly can not (or will not) read what the law or code says, or understand court procedures, or how tax accounting is done and how accountants are limited and what lawful means are available to reduce tax liabilities. The "stuff" posted on most tax-protestor websites is some of the most assinine "legal" tripe I've read in years.

That matters not to the government. They can't let this information become known, let them win, and, of course, are going to make examples of them to scare anyone who may be considering not filing. In the courtroom, the judge's totally ignore the law.

Judges can be forced to address the law, but defendants have *no* leverage if their own arguments are incorrect or unsubstantiated on the law. Yes, the system is unfair and the government will indeed pull every trick possible. Yes, the government is trying to supress much of the so-called "information" proclaimed by tax-protestors, but not because the government is afraid of it, no. The government is trying to supress it because most of it is just plain wrong and many naive people are being hurt by it as well as tax revenues potentially taking a big hit if some of these illegal schemes were adopted en- mass, and the resulting prosecutions would further clog up the courts, to no good outcome.

There is a reason most tax-protestors represent themselves. They don't listen to their lawyers or accountants and end up postitioning themselves behind a legal eightball which has no legitimate defense, and most competent lawyers won't touch the tax-protestors "arguments" with a ten-foot pole.

It is said don't go into a gunfight armed with a pocket knife. The mistakes happen long before that. If all one understands is pocket knives, one would do well to listen to the advice of professional gunfighters.

Starwind  posted on  2006-12-04   19:10:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Starwind (#7)

the IRS code is not the law.

watch Freedom To Fascism. it addresses everything i said above much better. listen in particular to the testimony of the several former IRS agents and the one female juror of the case featured in the film. btw, you wanna see stupid? look at the former IRS commissioner, whose name escapes me at the moment, Russo interviews.

christine  posted on  2006-12-04   19:21:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: christine (#9)

the IRS code is not the law.

It is a body of regulations and procedures intended by congress to have the weight of law and be construed as law when courts deem it necessary to review. Same as SEC regulations are "law" for how companies do their bookkeeping and stock transactions.

I won't argue with you that it is an arcane labrynth in which accountability for enactment and empowerment of the IRS (via the Treasury) is difficult to trace. But that doesn't change the reality of what the tax code is and that it has the weight of law. If it were as simple as tax-protestors delude themselves, companies, accountants, and tax lawyers would be using it like they use every other "loophole".

The only way I know to lawfully reduce tax liabilities is through common law establishment of trusts and foundations, but they have to be setup and correctly operated similar to a corporation's transactions being at "arms length" from its CEO and shareholders' personal finances. But the benefits to the individual (grantor) are one-time and the distributions to beneficiaries are taxable, as is any investment income the trust or foundation might subsequently have.

I've seen numerous tax-protestors who claim to be able to prove the law isn't the law, and every single one of them is grossly ignorant of how courts understand the law.

Reading a law dictionary and arguing specious definitions of legal terms of art, or arguing non-existant precedents, and ignoring opposing motions and court orders is the pocket knife in the gun fight.

Starwind  posted on  2006-12-04   19:52:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#148. To: Starwind, all, thread (#11) (Edited)

Reading a law dictionary and arguing specious definitions of legal terms

A truly free society enjoys (or should enjoy) the benefit of rational dispute without the threat of incarceration and should be able to redress grievances without hiring a lawyer or becoming one their self.

When an issue is as pervasive as taxation is, having some potential application to every citizen regardless of their financial status or level of education, it would appear reasonable that these mandates should be written in plain enough language, in simple terms understandable to all affected by them.

The necessity to draft regulatory instructions in incomprehensible legal terms, that are defined in law dictionaries, buried within countless volumes of "code", is more likely the result of high tech pettifoggers representing corporate evaders of taxes than the outgrowth of common citizens expecting fair treatment and an honest government, both of which most would admit is a far cry from the situation in America's tax system.

The (legally created) fiction that people and corporations should be treated equally under the law is simply an outrageous fraud. This fraud allows the continuance of an admittedly incomprehensible tax system that defies common sense, especially when combined with a debt based economic system flooded with fiat currency, and dependent on credit. This unholy marriage (consumated in 1913 under questionable circumstances) is only beneficial to powerful bankers, corporate marauders and government thieves ultimately resulting in the ruination of the family unit and the nation by forcing two people to work in order to earn one living after taxes.

The end result is that 20 years after the 1913 Federal Reserve Act and the Income Tax Act were implemented, America was bankrupt. This bankruptcy has been kept quiet while the looters pilfered America's natural resources and abused its populace's labor. Many would argue that we are the greatest nation on earth, we are technologically superior and even that we have a higher standard of living than most of the entire world. I would remind those delusional people that we are the greatest debtor nation on earth today, and many of our counterparts are coming out from under the effects of this assumed grandeur and demanding a return on their investment in American debt instruments that are increasingly devalued.

Anyone refusing to look at the wholesale gutting of America's assets such as ports, national parks, roads, and other critical infra-structure, along with the imposition of the NAU, NAFTA, GATT, WTO, Agenda 21, etc., etc. is in denial or willingly delusional. These activities are not simply the natural progression of a nation state into an international federation, this is imposition of bankruptcy proceedings through international agencies such as the IMF and World Bank that represent the interests of international banking cartels that pit one nation's debt against another's in order to maintain discipline and control of them all.

What I'm attempting to point out is that we can cling to the illusion of greatness and prosperity until it collapses. Our problem in this nation is far more problematic than represented by the antics of Irwin Schiff, Bob Schultz and Joe Banister. But it all starts and ends with the acceptance of fraud. Whether or not we as a nation have the ability to return to simple honesty in our lives devoid of legalese, pettifogging miscreants, crooked judges that fear the IRS, senile thieving perverts in Congress, and an ignorant apathetic population is up for debate, but there can hardly be any question we are headed in the wrong direction like a runaway freight train without an engineer.

When the only way to actually be heard by the government is to hire lobbyists and load them down with bribes for the politicians sometimes the court system looks like the only other alternative. People like Schiff, Kotmair, Schultz, Russo and Banister approach this unseemly venue as a last resort in a vain attempt to salvage whatever unfounded notions of liberty remain ingrained in their pea brains in spite of the obvious. Hoping against hope that there's still one reasonable judge that will sacrifice his career in the interest of liberty and freedom ... when that is not the purpose of the court system ... it's about control, period.

The world has always had laws. The laws have always been used to exploit and control the masses for an elitist class ... nothing new here, it's easier to control slaves that are conditioned to believe they are free. Anyone willing to support the mumbo-jumbo that oozes out of D.C. whether it's a legislative measure, a judicial opinion or an executive imperative does so out of ignorance, fear or for their own gain, not for righteousness sake.

The same courts you and others are so proud to quote have authorized numerous frauds such as slavery in the past, so cut the high minded horseshit and face the facts.

The only proper response to an IRS Summons is ... Fuck you and the horse you rode in on, any attempt by you or any of your bloodthirsty agents to interfere with my life will be considered an act of war and treated as such, I support the 2nd Amendment.

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#150. To: noone222 (#148)

kudos, outstanding post.

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